The UK economy works like this:
You go to school for 13 years to learn things you'll never use.
You go to university for 3 years to qualify for a job you could have done at 18, racking up £50K of debt that gets deducted from your payslip for 30 years.
You start work on £30K. After tax, NI, pension and student loan you take home around £1,900 a month.
You spend £1,000 of that on rent for a room in someone else's house, £320 on bills, £220 getting to and from the job, and £280 trying to eat.
You finish the month just about breaking even and start the next one already behind.
You're 27 now. You'll do this for another 38 years.